A new Google Glass application would allow shooters to aim around corners while protecting them from return fire, the app developer claims.

Tracking Point, a Texas company that develops precision-tracking
technology for firearms, announced via a YouTube video on
Thursday that it has combined wearable technology, like Google
Glass, with a Precision Guided Firearm (PGF) in a way that allows
users to shoot around corners. The new combined system is called
ShotView.

“When paired with wearable technology, PGFs can provide
unprecedented benefits to shooters, such as the ability to shoot
around corners, from behind low walls, and from other positions
that provide exceptional cover,” the company said in the
video description. “Without PGF technology, such positions
would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to fire
from.”

Vice’s
Motherboard website compared the new technology with a jet’s
heads-up display (HUD), a transparent display that allows pilots
to read data without looking away from their normal view.
“Much like a jet fighter's head's up display (HUD),
TrackingPoint's wearable PGF app gives users the visual aids
needed to take their aiming and shooting chops to previously
impossible levels.”

Oren Schauble, Tracking Point’s director of marketing, told
Motherboard in April, "Being able to shoot around corners and
over hills is a little mind-blowing when you actually do it.
Things keep on rolling."

The ShotView app works by streaming video from the tracking
scope’s HUD to WiFi devices. “This enables direct device
streaming for phones, tablets and many wearables. For additional
networking, phones can connect via bluetooth and the Internet to
share the apps data with additional devices,” the
promotional video claims. Combining the PGF with Google Glass
“allows for accurate shots around corners, from supported
positions, behind-the-back, to the side and over
barricades.”

The application is not available for the public yet, and a rep
from the company told Huffington Post there are no plans to make
the app available to consumers. Glass integration is still in the
testing phase, Time reported.

The company began selling its (non-ShotView) PGFs to consumers in
2013. These rifles use a tracking scope and a guided trigger to
allow users to reliably hit targets from 1,000 yards, according
to their website. Their products have a variety of calibers,
barrel lengths, chassis systems, applications and ammunitions.

Tracking Point already
provides the US military with six of its so-called “smart”
rifles, which come equipped with an internal computer system as
well as sensors that gauge environmental factors to help a
soldier aim. Google Glass is no stranger to the military, either,
as a US Air Force research team is in the process of beta-testing
Google Glass headsets for possible utilization in battlefield
scenarios.